I'm not a fan of this guy's message at all, but the fact that you can be so easily and totally de-platformed should be a clarion call for everyone.
Platforms wield too much power and can wholly and totally destroy us. Run afoul of their rules just once (or maybe even not at all), and your business or identity gets totally erased with no recourse.
This is a shameful and scary state for us to be in. Serfs of the platforms.
If the political zeitgeist continues to become even more extreme, you might get silenced for questioning the origins of a virus, being LGBT, or expressing displeasure at a certain political candidate or business leader. Left or right.
It should be impossible to remove someone from banking, PayPal, Shopify, social media, etc. -- unless they're actively breaking federal law. And even then, there should be a legal process in place to reclaim your identity and real estate.
If legislation won't help us, then we need to build peer-to-peer (not federated) systems that will.
Platforms wield too much power and can wholly and totally destroy us. Run afoul of their rules just once (or maybe even not at all), and your business or identity gets totally erased with no recourse.
This is a shameful and scary state for us to be in. Serfs of the platforms.
If the political zeitgeist continues to become even more extreme, you might get silenced for questioning the origins of a virus, being LGBT, or expressing displeasure at a certain political candidate or business leader. Left or right.
It should be impossible to remove someone from banking, PayPal, Shopify, social media, etc. -- unless they're actively breaking federal law. And even then, there should be a legal process in place to reclaim your identity and real estate.
If legislation won't help us, then we need to build peer-to-peer (not federated) systems that will.